Umbra Students Help Create Risorgimento Exhibit
Mar | 02
Two Umbra students presented their part of a local museum’s exhibit on Italian unification. This year is the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the unification of Italy as a national state. History here, as everywhere, is always a battleground,... Read More
Tandem Kicks off for Fall 2010!
Feb | 02
Umbra's Italian-American language exchange meetings, known around town as Tandem, kicked off last week with an aperitivo at the Birraio on Wednesday evening. Faculty and staff, as well as visitors from the Penn State University, joined students from Umbra and the... Read More
Sew to Save Lives
Feb | 02
With a needle and thread in hand, students began sewing their very own Pigotta doll for UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund. Every week, student volunteers will work towards creating these special handmade dolls, the very symbol of UNICEF in Italy. Each doll helps... Read More
The Geography of a Pizza Oven
Feb | 02
This could have been the name of last night's lecture...had it been a lecture! Instead it was the Umbra Institute's Pizza Workshop, a hot-baked mix of the history and biochemistry of pizza, followed by the main course, the pizza itself.... Read More
Pasta in Passignano
Jan | 02
Side-by-side, Arcadia students and volunteers of the Orsini family's eco-friendly farm became a pasta making factory. The tradition of pasta making came alive as students kneaded, rolled, and cut the dough made of eggs and flour. However, the day was... Read More
Nooks and Crannies Redux
Jan | 02
This past weekend Umbra students were put to the test: does Perugia have more nooks, or more crannies? Staff member and Urban Engagement Seminar prof Zachary Nowak took a group of thirty students on a ramble around the city's historic... Read More